Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-09
SOUTHERN GLEANiNGS.

Aouscs, Win total loss OF SOULFUL.
There is negro preacher at Crawford,
Ga., who has no legs, being hauled
around town in wagon by two goats.
A Texas farmer says that three good
bulldogs roaming the yard at night will
do more to keep man honest than all the
talking in the world.
| Indian river, Florida, is said TO be the
straightest in the world A straight line
can be drawn through it for seveLty- five
miles without touching shore.
A man at Amercus, Ga, went IS bed
thinking so intently of a mulberry tree
that he was to transplant in the morning
that he gotup in his sleep and trausplated
the tree and went back to bed without
waking up.
The hotel at Cayces Springs, William
son County, Tenn, was burned few days
ago. There were large number Of
guests in the building, but all escaped
| uninJured The hotel was owned by
Stafford & Daniel, and the loss is SIS, 0)0;
covered by insurance.
James Hoskins, Of Owensboro, KY,
took ten cents worth of morphine few
days since at sin gle doze. AS soon as it
was discovered that he had taken the
poison DR.. G. 81 Todd was sent for, and
by judicious employment Of antidotes his
| life was saved.
Hope Croft ten-year-old boy, is und er
| arrest at Quitman, Ca, for having set fire
| to two school buildings which were
burned, because he did not want to attend
school. He was caught while trying to
fire third building, which had been
secured to conduct the school in.
| The West Tennessee colored citizens
| will hold their fair this year at Jackson,
| in October.
| A two-mor tbs old calf in o w en- County,
| KY, weighs 275 pounds.
| Henry Georges land theories are hav.
ing great spread in Louisiana. Seven
| teen Land and Labor clubs have been or.
| ganized in New Orleans.
| Anti-treating societies are being organ
lied in various Georgia cities, and already
| embrace mum erous and influential mem
| bership.
| The schooner James B. Jordan went
ashore ON Western Dry Rocks, near Key
West, Fla, few days ago. She was
| loaded with railroad iron from Perth Am
boy, n. j., for Galveston, Tex
| The grand jury at Jackson, Miss, re.
| turned two indictments against Jones s.
| Hamilton and L. M. Eubanks, charging
| them separately with the murder of
Roderick Dhu Gambrell.
Joe Mulhatton, who is more or less
known to fame as one of the great liars
| of the country, lis now living III Louis
vile, KY. He never smokes nor drinks
and is extremely generous with his
money. He is a successful drummer. He
| will work month on some startling yarn
| not half column in length, and his sto-
ries have always had wide circulation in
| the newspapers.
The confederate cavalry commander,
General j. E. B. Stuart, who was killed
in a desperate cavalry fight at Yellow
Tavern, near Richmond. Va, in 1864, is to
have a monument A commission, OF
which Governor Lee, of Virginia, is chair
man, has been formed, and steps will be
taken to erect such a monument as will
be worthy of one of his pro vess.
Tom King, colored, shot and instantly
! killed his wife, at Asheville, N. c., few
days ago. He claims it was accidental. He
says he was going hunting, and the gun
went off. King was arrested and taken
before a magistrate in NJ lch distress and
weeping bitterly.
Ambrose Lake, colored, was shot and
fatally wounded near S1el byville, Tenn,
few days since, by William Temple.
After Lake had assaulted Tempe with
stones, Temple return ed home, and. Sc
curing a gun, renewed the difficulty and
fred upon the negro Temple had no!
been arrested.
Ed. Turley and Thos. Fogle, the latter
prominent citizen of Rockport, KY, be-
came involved in a quarrel at that place, 2
few DAYS since, over business matter.
Turley seized heavy chair and broke it
to pieces over Fogle's head, cutting his
scalp badly and fracturing his skull. He
was thought to be beyond relief, and Tur-
ley is in stody to await the result of his
injuries.
Northern capitalists are rapidly ac-
gu iring all the pine lands in Southern
Alabama that are still owned by the Gov
ernment, and that can be had for 81. 25 an
acre Elihu and William Jackson, of
Maryland, have just purchased $1,000
acres OF finely timbered land in one tract
In Cow lgton County, and 10000 acres
were bought by another party about a
month ago.
R. T.. Cohen, a we'll known transfer
agent of Danville, Va, was shot and
killed few nights ago by Charles Saylor.
Three other young men have been ar
! rested as accessories, and the homicide
has created much excitement. 1t is said
/ that the shooting grew out Of an affair in
WHICH young WOHldu vas CobCCi hSu;
/ and Saylor was heard to saw that he would
kill Cohen before morning. Meeting
Cohen at a later hour on the street he
opened fire on him and shot him to death.
The Chief of Police Of Nashville, Tenn,
received a telegram a few days ago an
nouncing the arrest in East ST. Louis, HI,
of Ben Bray, colored, who shot and killed
Joseph Frizzell, and dangerously wound ed
James Booker also colored, in Nashville
on the 18th inst Chief Kerrigan tele.
graphed the East st. Louis authorities tc
hold Bray until an officer would arrive,
He subsequently learned that Bray had
made full confession, and that he re
fused to return to Tennessee without o
requisition Whereupon Detective Cost
cen left for Illinois. Bray is des parate
character, and two years ago, aided by
his brother, Nose Bray, severely cut two
other negroes. The shooting OF Frizzell
was without provocation.
Jack billiard. a car-coupler, was outted
to death at Columbia, S. c., lew days
ago by Scott Logan, fireman on switch
engine, in the Richmond & Danvlie rail-
road yard in Columbia. Both were me-
groes The two men quarrelled about q
woman, and after few blows had been
racsed thew clinched when billiard,